- Venezuela: Regime will deem Machado a “fugitive” if she travels to accept Nobel
Source: CBS News
“Nobel laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be considered a ‘fugitive’ if she emerges from hiding to collect the honor in Norway, Venezuela’s attorney general told Agence France-Presse on Thursday. Machado has expressed interest in attending the ceremony, which will be held in Oslo on December 10. ‘By being outside Venezuela and having numerous criminal investigations, she is considered a fugitive,’ Attorney General Tarek William Saab told the AFP. Saab added that Machado is accused of ‘acts of conspiracy, incitement of hatred, terrorism,’ and noted that she is under investigation for her support of the United States’ deployment of military forces in the Caribbean. ” (11/21/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-peace-prize-maria-corina-machado-fugitive-venezuela/
- FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The FBI spied on a private Signal group chat of immigrants’ rights activists who were organizing ‘courtwatch’ efforts in New York City this spring, law enforcement records shared with the Guardian indicate. … A ‘joint situational information report’ from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD), dated 28 August 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as ‘anarchist violent extremist actors,’ The two-page report was distributed to other law enforcement agencies across the US.” (11/21/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration
- What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
Source: The Bulwark
by Mark Hertling“No one in the American military swears allegiance to any individual. The oaths are not pledges of loyalty to a party, a personality, or a political movement. Loyalty is pledged to the Constitution — and officers further take that obligation ‘without mental reservation,’ knowing full well it may someday require them to stand with courage between unlawful authority and the people they serve.” (11/21/25)
- Rents After the Chainsaw
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“Argentina’s Ministry of Deregulation — yes, it now has one — reports that by June 2024, little more than half a year after chainsaw-wielding libertarian candidate Javier Milei won the presidential election, the housing market boomed … into a magnificent recovery.” (11/21/25)
- Building Proficient Learners
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kym Kent“Recently, a colleague handed me an article by The Free Press, ‘The College Kids Who Can’t Do Basic Math,’ and asked for my thoughts. The article cited a November 6, 2025, report from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), which revealed that the math skills of approximately one in eight of their first-year students were below middle-school level. In the wake of earlier reports of Harvard offering remedial math classes, the fact that UCSD was offering similar classes was not surprising. As I processed what I was reading, I wrestled with conflicting internal responses.” (11/21/25)
- Some Democrats Urge the Military To “Refuse Illegal Orders.” What if the IRS, ATF, and EPA Did the Same?
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille“I favor government employees defying orders and sabotaging the instruments of the state as much as the next libertarian (well, maybe a little more). But I suspect the Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military and the intelligence community to ‘refuse illegal orders’ haven’t entirely thought through their positions. While their advice is commendable so far as it goes, as officials of a political party known for its expansive view of the role of government their words are likely to come back and bite them on their collective asses. It’s hard to imagine them being so enthusiastic about a reboot of this message directed at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and IRS agents under a Democratic administration.” (11/21/25)
- Zooming In, 11/21/25
Source: The UnPopulist
“America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig.” (11/21/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-will-need-a-reconstruction
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 11/21/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for ‘Death’ to Dems Just Backfired Badly.” (11/21/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/203487/trump-angry-tirade-calling-death-dems-just-backfired-badly
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/21/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Launches ‘Series’ of Airstrikes in Somalia, IDF Kills Five More Palestinians in Gaza, and More.” (11/21/25)